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http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/McGladdery.html

Robert Andrew McGladdery (18 October 1935 – 20 December 1961) was the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland. He was convicted of the murder of P**** G*****, [Name Omitted on purpose] aged 19, whom he had battered, strangled and stabbed to death on 28 January 1961 and whose body was discovered at Upper Damolly, near Newry, County Down. (NOT RESTRICTED FILE, DETAILS AVAILABLE ONLINE)

So the actual court files of the below deceased (hung by the state) is one of the hundreds of cases I am sifting through and writing a synopsis first then detailing all the facts, details, law used, judges and counsels comments and facts that would be of possible interest from either a historical legal position,  evidential burdens, injustices done or perceived, deaths that were disproportionate to the crime or where handed down as a mandatory sentence as the law would dictate from time to time. E.g.. statutory law. I am not permitted to share any of the data on the files and signed a non-disclosure agreement upon receiving the many confidential files. Some are like something straight out the X files with lots of names and address blacked out. These remaining details I still must find, and would typically get these details by checking historical newspapers. One such resource, the ‘Irish Times’ archives and then cross reference the information with the information available in the file. In other words, dual sourcing to have more confidence in the researched information. I typically use the Maynooth University Library for the historical newspapers. They span back to the mid 1800’s so your great granddads DOB’s newspaper is available for you to have a nose. Why don’t you? Thanks for reading.

Kind Regards
Christian

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Well it would seem the Facebook page is not a hit with the patrons; so I will try and use this format and limit the file sizes in order to comply with the permission levels.

So this week I was working on more cases of people who were hung. Some deserved it (not my opinion) some did not. What does this translate to.
Well it was legal to hang someone who was found guilty of a crime, so let us say for arguments sake, they deserved it.

But what if they were found legally guilty, and were in fact, not guilty.

This of course being found out 100 years later is of little comfort to the rotting corpse in (N.I) Crumlin prison grounds. However, should the fact that injustices done a long time ago and no one left to compensate prevent the truth from being known.

I think not. I delve further and further this week into the minds of the lonely, demented, insane, mentally retarded and sometimes just downright evil, in order to see if justice prevailed as was thought by the people who came to see those hung by the noose. And with glee roared, HANG HIM, HANG HIM, and sometimes the case, HANG HER. Noteworthy of course this only a few decades after 'HANG HER, HANG HER, she is a witch'. I have found mostly in my research a lack of conviction and professional ethics in the Judges of the cases, counsel for prosecution and defence seem to behave with the utmost professionalism but the judge is the one who seems to let Ego and emotion take over. This being done when he is directing the jury to make their determination, the most pivotal time of course. Thankfully the judges of today are of a totally different breed.
Kind Regards

Christian.

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This week I have been looking at the hanging of the Male v's the Female ratio, which is far from close. The English from the turn of the 18th century had no problem hanging both men and women. However, as seen from the changing attitudes in the early 19th century, and up to the 1960's hanging men for murder was like ordering a pizza, but when it came to hanging women they (the Establishment) found it harder to stomach. One such woman "Cox" who murdered her child (infanticide) and her brother was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. But the government did not 'have the stomach' to hang her, instead she served less than ten years in prison and got to retain ownership of her families’ estate, which was a very large farm near Mountmellick, in County Laois. (http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/mr-cox-and-his-sister-the-strychnine-poisoner-26825297.html) Had this been a male, there would have been no reluctance in stringing him up, and the land would have gone to the government or another relative, but certainly not the man that committed the murder. This attitude seems reminiscent of the Titanic’s 'board the women and children' rhetoric, after all it was seen as un-gentleman like to NOT let a woman go first. A tradition which still lives today handed down from our parents no doubt, hence the door held open for a lady or woman; (whatever the case) ‘the ladies first’ attitude. Albeit, this clearly wasn’t the case when it came to hanging women. There are a couple of links here that whilst not part of my research files, (as they must be kept confidential still) the newspaper link is the actual case mentioned above, that I have the police file from; and the second link is the background to some capital punishment courtesy of the BBC 4 which has an endless supply of documentaries on the topic. Thanks for reading and good luck with your research this week.

Kind Regards,

Christian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWcX9vZiKc

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So this week, I have been working closely with my sponsor on his book and the facts contained therein. This is time constraint connected to this week specifically; a proposal is being put forward for research in another area and this research is being used to show the strengths and weaknesses I would assume.

By cross referencing sources to the actual chapters of the book (in progress), by checking the footnotes and bibliography and looking for things that maybe wrong. It is surely a change from what I have been doing for the last few weeks and a bit mundane, but illustrates the importance of the many people involved in checking, double checking and triple checking before a book, journal or paper can be published. Of course I am but one set of eyes, and one more skilled than I will be checking my work after I have finished with it.

Everyone it is assumed has experienced reading a book and seeing a typo and a misspelled word and the confounded shock that goes along with the find. The assumption is that a book should be perfect, the facts properly sourced, where legal findings in criminal cases are critically important, moreover those facts have to be 100% accurate and all file and case numbers corresponding with equal perfection. If you or your college is an author of a publications, both you and the colleges reputation rest on the merits of that piece of work. It is especially so in the case of legal writing that the normal hum drum mistakes that one sees in a newspaper and thinks little of, is not tolerated. In closing this week has not been much research but certainly stretched my limits as a perfectionist, which I have never claimed to be. So to step into the shoes of one (a perfectionist) for a few days has certainly pushed my capabilities a bit further and brought me theoretically a bit closer to the pressures that must be involved when trying to publish work, and having deadlines in place that you just cannot fail to deliver on, lest you want to find a new publisher. One would be right in assuming that if you burn a bridge with one publisher the others may not be too willing to do business with you.  Thanks for Reading
Kind Regards

Christian